Painting It Red
| Painting It Red | ||||
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| Studio album by The Beautiful South | ||||
| Released | 
9 October 2000 (UK) October 31, 2000 (US)  | |||
| Label | Ark 21 | |||
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| Source | Rating | 
| Allmusic | |
| Pitchfork Media | 6.1/10 link | 
Painting It Red is the seventh original album released by The Beautiful South in October 2000. The album is the band's joint longest, with 19 tracks. A two-disc UK bonus version contains 20 tracks. The American release on Ark21 has only 17 tracks.[1]
The album made it to number 2 in the charts, but despite the number of tracks, only two singles were produced: "Closer Than Most", which reached number 22 in September and the double A-side "The River"/"Just Checkin'", which reached number 59 in December.
Track listing
British, European, Canadian & Japanese Versions
- "Who's Gonna Tell?" - 2'37 (UK, Canada, Europe & Japan only)
 - "Closer Than Most" - 3'07
 - "Just Checkin'" - 3'38
 - "Hit Parade" - 3'45
 - "Masculine Eclipse" - 3'55
 - "'Til You Can't Tuck It In" - 3'30
 - "If We Crawl" - 4'14
 - "Tupperware Queen" - 3'34
 - "Half-Hearted Get (Is Second Best)" - 4'24
 - "White Teeth" - 3'04 (UK two-disc set only)
 - "The River" - 5'23
 - "Baby Please Go" - 2'46
 - "You Can Call Me Leisure" - 4'31
 - "Final Spark" - 5'03
 - "10,000 Feet" - 3'01
 - "Hot on the Heels of Heartbreak" - 4'00
 - "The Mediterranean" - 4'02
 - "A Little Piece of Advice" - 3'55
 - "Property Quiz" - 3'50
 - "Chicken Wings" - 4'29 (UK, Canada, Europe & Japan only)
 
US Version
All songs written by Paul Heaton and David Rotheray.
- "Closer Than Most"
 - "Just Checkin'"
 - "Hit Parade"
 - "Masculine Eclipse"
 - "'Til You Can't Tuck It In"
 - "If We Crawl"
 - "Tupperware Queen"
 - "Half-Hearted Get (Is Second Best)"
 - "The River"
 - "Baby Please Go"
 - "You Can Call Me Leisure"
 - "Final Spark"
 - "10,000 Feet"
 - "Hot on the Heels of Heartbreak"
 - "The Mediterranean"
 - "A Little Piece of Advice"
 - "Property Quiz"
 
CD Single/CDEP B-Sides
As was their usual modus operandi, The Beautiful South included unreleased material on the B-sides of the singles taken from their albums.[2]
from the "Closer Than Most" CD1
- "Closer Than Most"
 - "Moths"
 - "The Table" (Acoustic, recorded live at The Cambridge Folk Festival, July 29, 2000)
 
from the "Closer Than Most" CD2
- "Closer Than Most"
 - "The State That I'm In"
 - "Blackbird On The Wire" (Acoustic, recorded live at The Cambridge Folk Festival, July 29, 2000)
 
from the "The River/Just Checkin'" CD1
- "The River" (Edit)
 - "Just Checkin'" (Remixed by David Bascombe & Norman Cook)
 - "Valentine's Day W**k"
 
from the "Just Checkin'"/The River" CD2
- "Just Checkin'" (Remixed by David Bascombe & Norman Cook)
 - "The River" (Edit)
 - "Little Chef"
 
Personnel
- Paul Heaton - vocals
 - Dave Hemingway - vocals
 - Jacqui Abbott - vocals
 - Dave Rotheray - guitar
 - Sean Welch - bass
 - Dave Stead - drums
 
References
- 1 2 ""Painting It Red" Versions". discogs.com. Retrieved 2014-11-18.
 - ↑ King, David. "The Beautiful South Discography". xmission.com. Retrieved 2014-11-15.
 
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